Combined razor and stropper



J. W. McAULIFFE.

COMBINED, RAZOR AN D STROPPER.

-1PPL|CATI0N FILED APR. 16, 1920.

1,367,159. Patented Feb. 1,1921.

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COMBINED RAZOR AND S'IROPIER.

To all whom it mmy co /teem:

Be it known that 1, JOHN MGAULIFFE, a citizen of the United States,residing at town of Pelham, county of VVestchester, State of New York,have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Combined Razorsand Stroppers, and declare the following to be'a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, such. as will enable others the claims; but,for a full understanding of my invention and of its object andadvantages, reference may be had to the following detailed descriptiontaken in connection with the adcompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure 1 is an end view of a razor arranged in accordance with myinvention, the handle being broken away;

Fig. 2 is a front view of the razor, the guard and blade being shown insection; and

Fig. 3 is a section taken approximately on line 3-3 of Fig. 2. Referringto the drawing, 1 and 2 represent the lower and upper members of atwopart casing or housing decreasing graduall" in width toward the upperend which is le t open. The size and shape of the casing or housing aredetermined by the nature of the stropping device employed. In thearrangement shown, the stropper consists of a cylindricalmember, 3, havinga section cut out of one side throughout the length thereof. The member3 is fixed upon a shaft, 1, which is journaled in the end walls of thecasing, the bearings bein preferably divided along the plane of t ejoint between the upper and lower halvesof the casin or housing. Acombined support and guar 5, for a blade projects forwardl from theupper edge of the front wall of t e housing. The opening in the top ofthe housing is closed by a hood, 6, lying just behind the member 5. Thehood 18 carried on the up- 15, may be provide Specification of LettersPatent; Patented F b 1, 1921 Application filed April 16, 1920. SerialNo. 374,802. I

per ends of the arms, 7 and 8, joined together at their lower ends by across piece, 9; the arms 7 and 8 lying at oppositeends of the housingand bearing against the inner face of the front wall of the housing. The

arms are provided with longitudinal slots,

' blade-carrier, 12, which may conveniently be journaled at its ends inthe end walls of the hood. A razor blade is attached in any .usual orsuitable way at its back or rear edge to the carrier; the parts being soproportloned that when they occupy the position shown in full lines inFig. 1, the blade is held in operative relation to the guard while, uponraising the hood to the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, theblade may be swung back off the support and guard and brin its free edgeabove the open top of the housing. Thereupon, upon. again lowering thehood to the position shown in full lines in Fig. l, the blade is loweredinto the housin strop ing It wi-l of course be understood that thestropping roller is oscillated through an angle of less than 380degrees, first stropping the blade from one side andthen from the other;the blade swinging from one side to the other while its cutting edge isopposite the cavity or mutilated portion of the cylindrical stropper.The blade is held into operative relation to the yleldingly pressedagainst the stropping surface by means of one or the other of twosprings or groups of springs, 14, projecting inwardly from the front andrear walls of the housing near the top thereof in position to engagewith the blade when it is swung in one direction or the other. Ifdesired, a suitable awl and ratchet device,

cl for the purpose of compelling the user to complete a turning movementof the stropping device, once started, before beginning a returnmovement.

grasped between two fingers evice as illustrated in Fig. 3.

It is desirable that the hood with its blade carrier be locked againstdisplacement both when the blade is in its shaving position and when itis in its stropping position. This may conveniently be accomplished byproviding the cross piece, 9, of the supporting frame for the hood witha pin or stud, 16,

projecting through a slot, 17, in the front Wall of the housing andsupporting on the outer end of the pin or stud a cam dog, 18, which,when in the position shown in full lines in Fig. l, clamps the member 9to the front wall of the housing and, when swung outwardly parallel withthe position shown in dotted lines in Fig. l, releasing the supportingframe for the blade-carrying elements and permitting the blade to beshifted from one of its two positions to the other. The locking dog maybe made to serve the further purpose of locking the parts together inany one of various positions of adjustment; thus permitting the cuttingedge of the blade to benicely adjusted relatively to the guard accordingto the nature of the beard to which the razor is to be applied.

The stropper may be' operated by a crank, 19, which, when not in use,may be placed within the hollow handle, 20, of the razor, the handle ofthe crank having on the end a screw threaded button, 21, which forms aclosure for the handle when the crank is housed therein.

It will thus be seen that I have produced an extremely simple andcompact self-stropping razor; the housing bein made of two simplesections which, when fastened together by means of a few small screws,22, also form bearings for the stropping cylinder. The blade-carryingmeans consisting of the carrier mounted in a simple hood with itssliding frame is not only easy of construction but it is rugged andpositive in its action so that a blade may be shifted from a shavingposition to a stropping position and back again an indefinite number oftimes without danger that the parts will get out of adjustment. 4

While 'I have illustrated and described with particularity only a'single preferred form of my invention, I do not desire to be limited tothe exact structural details thus illustrated and described; but intendto cover all forms and arrangements which come within the terms employedin the definitions of my invention constituting the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A safety razor comprising a housing having a guard for supporting arazor blade in shaving position, a frame slidable on the housing in adirection transverse to the guard, a blade pivotally supported in theVicinity of one long edge at the upper end of said frame, said housinghaving an opening therein in rear of the guard, the parts being soproportioned that when said frame is raised the blade may be swungeither so as to pass down into the housing through said opening or intoa shaving position relatively to the guard when the frame is lowered,and a stropping device within the housing for stropping the bladewhen ithangs in the housing.

2. A safety razor comprising a housing having a long narrow open top, auard projecting forwardly from the top of the housing, a stroppingdevice within the housing, a hood for closing the top of the housing, ablade carrier journaled in said hood and adapted to engage with one edgeof a blade so as either to hold the blade in shaving relation to theguard or depending into the housing into stropping relation to thestropping device when the hood is in its closed position, and a slidingsupport for said hood for permitting it to be raised and lowered bodilya suflicient distance to permit the blade to be raised from and loweredinto the housing.

3. A safety razor comprising a holder having a guar a carrier for arazor blade adapted to hold the blade in operative relation to theguard, a movable support for said carrier, and means for locking saidsupport in any one of a plurality of adjusted positions.

4. A safety razor comprising a two-part housing joined together along atransverse plane, a stropping roller arranged within the housing and journaled between the two parts thereof, the housing being open at thetop, a guard projecting laterally from the top of the housing, a hoodclosing the open top of the housing, a blade hung at one end in saidhood so as either to lie in operative relation to the guard or dependinto the housing into operative relation to the stropping device whenthe hood is in its closed position, and means for shifting the hood topermit the blade -to be moved into and out of the housing.

In testimony whereof, I sign this specification.

TOHN W. MOAULIFFE.

